... and representation. By featuring some of the considered visual testimony of a collective memory. most extraordinary writers, historians, artists, and Even now, race and power guide our visual reading theorists working today, we hope this special issue of these images, which both entice and incite. What of Nka...

... testimony, and scholarly research to bear witness to her status as a contemporary history painter. Coming to grips with the imaginative, political, and aesthetic force of one of her many series, I examine Louder Than Words to trace Walker’s visual and textual resistances to the intersecting relationships...

... drawings, documentaries, an• stereotype of a bumbling simpleton. The testimonies from perpetrators and imated films and theatre productions. Ubu production itself is too styled to give any real survivors of Apartheid-era politi• and the Truth...

...: Deuxième Paris (2004, Niger/France) and Jean-Marie Teno’s Sacred Places (2009, Cameroon/France). In particular, the article considers how the films reterritorialize documentary aesthetics through the use of landscape and testimony as metaphors for Africa’s post-colonial struggles. In doing so...

... more elaborate testimonies from other Turkish artists who are mak• BEDRIBAYKAM...

... for Dunkley's installa• progress" characteristic of the the diasporic elements of narra• tion. Titled A Cool Pose, these African Canadian presence that is tive and testimonials...

... that reflect this understanding. Over one hundred pieces from five decades fill seven rooms. After training in Khartoum and London, El-Salahi returned home and developed a visionary, syncretic style that reflected his personal interrogation of Sudanese visual identity. The show—a retrospective of an artist who...

... that contributed to the making of postapartheid trauma art—investigations into the psychic, moral, and ethical abjections of apartheid in the wake of testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her ink and glue works represent the conjunction of material, process, and subject matter: Siopis relies...

... of and cultural awareness of their within Sudan have helped pre• traditional concepts of African Khartoum are a testimony to its...

... social statement, and his patience in exploring its physical and visual properties to reshape it into a work of art. More readily evocative...

... of The last two chapters trace more African American artists and their rela• recent strategies for visualizing "black• tionship with and contributions...

...- or simplistic racialized positions (mir- recognize themselves and others in the heid archive as well as supplement- roring those of apartheid-era nomen- shots that are said to represent them. ing these with new kinds of testimony clature and determinism) that serve from witness reports and records to to confer...

..., SUNY at Ellen Thompson left but returned In March of 2001, I was intro• ry of antebellum America, the New Paltz, Visual...

... 'traditional' Uli artists, it approximates visual po- 54»Nka [journal of Contemporary African Art seven artists of the nsukka group chika okeke ry. This is the idea...

... and its continuing and unfolding after-ef - tween an image that refers to an external other, and fects still inform Ractliffe’s work, yet in telling ways a visuality that references nothing but itself. 1 These her work has moved on. two terms of thinking are simultaneously grappled...

... of wielding of lynching photography raises questions about the absolute power over abject and dehumanized vic• ethics of looking and the danger of voyeurism, of tims, each group of photographs reveals something reproducing the original pleasures of the visual con• we are not meant...

...Gilane Tawadros Three works made up the exhibition Scat—Sonia Boyce: Sound and Collaboration , presented by Sonia Boyce and the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) at Rivington Place in London from June through July 2013. The three works use image and sound in strikingly different...

... its windstorms unleashed. these ideas resonate with those whose identities With this in mind, I want to use this article to hinge on this kind of hopscotch, and that this dis• explore our contemporary responses to racism cussion offers a visual sense of the layers beneath and to question...

... ultimately interested in representational then desire settings indicate an intrinsic logic for collectivities, or what is screened, imaged, and per- finding meaningful place, an advantageous position formed. To this end, I map visual and sonic rep- A desire path. Courtesy the author 82 • Nka...

..." It is in the 1970's that a few black tasies converge with a 19th century pseudo was that although Europeans may not have visual artists involved in performance and scientific obsession with measuring sexu• understood the source of their fascination visual mediums relying...